alt Hacker NewsHong Kong was always Chinese, and was leased at gun point.
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lenerdenator • yesterday at 6:08 PM
And now the agreement that they'd be given a more liberalistic government is being torn up at gun point.
Hong Kong was always Chinese, and was leased at gun point.
And now the agreement that they'd be given a more liberalistic government is being torn up at gun point.
The government that leased it couldn’t really have less to do with the government that took it over in recent times. Things got considerably worse for Hong Kong, and the citizens didn’t want to join China.
It’s certainly not a given that donating it to China was the right call.